On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 09:58:51AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Ruben Safir said the following on 10/23/2008 07:46 PM:
Every SuSE Desktop host needs a SMTP and the port open? No, obviously they don't. Ah, yes they do
Oh no they DON'T and if an OS in my enterprise had to has an SMTP server on every desktop I'd had the security detail scrub every damn machine until that OS was gone.
Damn right! It would put them out of compliance and probably cost a lot in clean-up. It may even force their replacement by Microsoft Windows system!
Per, you are being quite ridiculous and outrageous.
Why? I'm not proposing nor arguing anything new. Honestly, an openSUSE system _needs_ a sendmail binary in order for millions of scripts to work. The binary delivers the mail to the local MTA - if there is no local MTA, those emails are never seen. And that goes for desktops and servers alike. And for Redhat/Debian/Mandriva/Slackware/etc too. I completely fail to see any security issue in having a postfix MTA listening on localhost:25 on a desktop machine.
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